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Waqas
Asked: 2015-07-31 13:27:44 +0800 CST

How to find PCI address of an ethernet interface?

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is there a way to find out the PCI bus number of an Ethernet interface or vice versa. I am looking to write a Bash/Python script which gives some thing like

pci_address = some_function(eth0)

where pci_address is sys:bus:slot:function. How can these two elements be related to each other?

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  1. Best Answer

    lshw and lspci are both capable of showing that information. As you have found out already, you can do lshw -class network -businfo. For instance, here's my output:

    $ sudo lshw -c network -businfo                                                                                                                    
Bus info          Device      Class       Description
=====================================================
pci@0000:0e:00.0  wlan0       network     RTL8187SE Wireless LAN Controller
pci@0000:14:00.0  eth0        network     RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller

    What you also could use is lspci -D and pipe it to grep to filter out the ethernet controller specifically. Here's my example:

    $ lspci -D | grep 'Network\|Ethernet'                                                                                                              
    0000:0e:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8187SE Wireless LAN Controller (rev 22)
    0000:14:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 02)

    Note that with the transition to systemd, one could use of Predictable Interface Naming to just look at the interface name to find out PCI information.

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  2. This information is available in sysfs, no helpers like lshw / lspci / ethtool / udevadm are needed:

    $ grep PCI_SLOT_NAME /sys/class/net/*/device/uevent
/sys/class/net/enp4s0/device/uevent:PCI_SLOT_NAME=0000:04:00.0
/sys/class/net/wlp2s0/device/uevent:PCI_SLOT_NAME=0000:02:00.0
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  3. ethtool will also show you pci for an interface (bus-info:)

    me@ubuntu:~$ ethtool -i eth0
driver: i40e
version: 1.5.16
firmware-version: 5.04 0x800024cd 0.0.0
bus-info: 0000:06:00.0
supports-statistics: yes
supports-test: yes
supports-eeprom-access: yes
supports-register-dump: yes
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  4. It looks you can tie them together by the IRQ.

    ifconfig -a

    will print the ethernet devices including Interrupt.

    eg.

    eth2      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:25:11:19:8b:77  
          inet addr:192.168.1.3  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::225:11ff:fe19:8b77/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:39958 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:34512 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:21410099 (21.4 MB)  TX bytes:4802798 (4.8 MB)
          Interrupt:43 Base address:0xa000

    while

    lspci -v

    gives the PCI info with IRQ

    eg.

    04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 01)
    Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 0245
    Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 43
    I/O ports at e800 [size=256]
    Memory at febff000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
    Expansion ROM at febc0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
    Capabilities: <access denied>
    Kernel driver in use: r8169
    Kernel modules: r8169

    since I see both are 43 I can infer that eth2 matches 04:00.0

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  5. Another solution, using udevadm

    udevadm info -a -p /sys/class/net/eth{0..10} | awk '/device.*eth/'

    {0..10} – checks the initerfaces from eth0 … eth10

    Therefore you could use this command

    pci_address=$(udevadm info -a -p /sys/class/net/eth{0..10} | awk -F/ '/device.*eth/ {print $4}')

    Example output

    looking at device '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0/net/eth0':

    Therefore the address is

    0000:00:03.0

    Or in your case with a single command

    % pci_address=$(udevadm info -a -p /sys/class/net/eth{0..10} | awk -F/ '/device.*eth/ {print $4}')
% echo $pci_address
0000:00:03.0

    or in a script

    #!/bin/bash
udevadm info -a -p /sys/class/net/"$1" | awk -F/ '/device.*eth/ {print $4}'

    Call the script with

    script_name eth0

    Output is

    0000:00:03.0
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  6. Sorry but PCI_SLOT_NAME in uevent isn't a PCI slot number, it is the bus.

    On HP H/W you can use bus number to look up the PCI slot number from the output of hplog -i.

    But I can't find similar utility for Oracle Linux on Sun H/W like M2s You can get some information using lspci -vmm & looking for PhySlot entries.

    This is for older systems before Dell's biosdevnames.

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